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Those two fist weapons could possibly use the Striker skill; don't think anyone's tested knuckledusters yet.

One way of avoiding the worst of the splash problem might be to to channel out the floor behind the fortifications and create a drainage pipe leading out a few z-levels beneath, then cover the channel with floor grates.

The only problem I can forsee with this arrangement is that your marksdwarves will end up soaking wet; if it's a cold or freezing biome this could be problematic.

The setup I'm envisioning is a sword-belt item, and a tag for entries in item_weapon enabling them to be put in it.

In fortress mode, you can assign your soldiers a sword-belt and choose which weapon goes into it, in addition to whatever their primary weapon happens to be. If that primary weapon breaks, gets stuck or they lose their grip on it then they draw their backup, and dwarves whose primary weapon is a crossbow drop it in favour of their backup when the enemy reaches an adjacent tile.

In adventure mode, owning a sword-belt should do all of the above, but also enable a "swap weapon" hotkey. If the weapon currently in hand has the sword-belt tag, it goes there ready to be swapped back when necessary; otherwise, it hits the ground.

If the Fighter stat does what I suspect it does, Toady could even implement a means for dwarves in Fortress mode to switch between melee weapons based on what would work best of their own accord.

From a little-visited corner of the fortress that I was engraving just to give them something to do: "Engraved on the wall is a masterful image of purring maggots."
From what seemed like every fifth engraving thereafter: "Engraved on the wall is a (variable-quality) rendition of a Urist McHirst engraving of purring maggots."

On the other hand, this fortress was home to a particularly homicidal sturgeon known as Lulllegends The Chains of Execution -I think it got about four dwarves and several animals before I finally had an axedwarf take care of it- so I suppose I got off rather lightly.

I think marksdwarves can shoot upwards. If they can, you now have a workaround for the marksdwarf training bug.

Six pyramids lining the route to your trade depot, as big as you care to make them. If you ever retrieve the bodies, put their tombs underneath.

I run DF on a MacBook Pro, and the only time I've noticed actual performance problems due to heat were when I had my laptop on a soft, insulating surface like a bed.  It does get a bit uncomfortable trying to run processing-intensive apps with it in my lap.

Never, ever put it on either. The term 'laptop' has been a misnomer since they first got powerful enough to need a fan, the vents for which are usually on the bottom. There are safety features built in that should stop the excess heat building up to the point where something catches fire, but it's still bad for computing speed and overall processor life. (And your sperm count in the latter case, according to some sources.) Set it up on a tea tray or something.

No, I'm saying IE is a terrible browser by almost any measure, and unlike ATI cards, there's no cost to having two browsers on your computer, so why wasn't he using Firefox or Chrome rather than suffer through an IE incompatibility. That he toughed it out with IE suggests that his tolerance for poor functionality makes him a bad judge of what good functionality would look like. He seems to mistake good functional design as just being 'looks'.

Actually, from an end-user standpoint IE has been getting better lately. I still prefer Firefox overall, but having to use IE7 and above no longer makes me tear my hair out in frustration. As far as standards-compliance goes... I think I'll save that argument for the Magmawiki thread.

Oh, and if you have any choice in the matter, buy a desktop. Laptops are designed to be portable and sacrifice a lot to achieve that end. The most basic maintenance or upgrade tasks are many times harder -I have built PCs from scratch, excluding software, in the time it takes to get the back panel off a laptop- and points of failure that would take a desktop out of service for a couple of hours can force you to junk a laptop completely.

Already in as a human and goblin weapon, can be added to the dwarven arsenal with an extremely minor mod. Doesn't really work all that well at present, however; you either hit with the spikes or the heavy part, not both at once.

Perhaps something like these?